Word: matter-of-fact
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...illusions and delusions of myth and fable are being converted into the matter-of-fact of History. The "higher criticism" is taking the romance alike out of the Iliad and the Old Testament. Now yet another blow has been struck: "Old Noah He Did Build An Ark" thus runs the famous song: now it appears that he did nothing of the sort. Or rather, instead of being "an hundred cubits long and pitched within and without," it was solidly constructed of gigantic stone blocks; the completed edifice having four faces and four edges meeting in a point. In other words...
...justifiable curiosity concerning the reports of the journey--reports that contradict each other at almost every turn. The days of melodrama for melodrama's sake have passed; so that when, in these latter days, the life of a man hangs on the howling of a dog, and a matter-of-fact balloon trip culminates in a fist fight in a North Canadian log hut, there is a natural desire to seek out the "whys and wherefores" that lie beneath the surface...
...Mitchell, who, by the way, is a graduate of Andover, Yale, and the Harvard Law School, has in William a part eminently suited to his form of artistry. His matter-of-fact yet expressive Americanisms reflect all the more to his credit for interpreting them because they are set in a heavily-contrasting background of English stodginess. It is like a refreshing cold shower to hear his crisp, incisive ideas, his ready slang, after a period of drawling "I say"'s, and "Don' cher know"'s. Ann Andrews, who plays the role of Lady Elizabeth Galton, an instantaneous magnet...
...Fame and the Poet' has never been staged, having but recently been written, and the Dramatic Club has, therefore, the honor of being its first producers. The scene of this sketch is laid in modern London, and the play contains but three characters, Prattle, an empty-headed and matter-of-fact man about town; De Reves, a poet and dreamer; and Fame, an allegorical figure...
...will allow me the space, I will put side by side with the above, a matter-of-fact newspaper account of the death of an ambuance driver, H. G. Suckley '10, in the American Ambulance Service. "Shortly after the beginning of the war he volunteered in the Ambulance and served in the Vosges Mountains through the winter of 1915. For bravery in action during the intense attack by the Germans, lasting over a month, he was awarded the Croix de Guerre and promoted to sous-lieutenant. In this capacity he served at Malzeville, Verdun and Port-a-Mousson, distinguishing himself...